Geek Advertising Banner system RC1

HowdA All.

From the makers of Hydrogen comes the latest mack - GAB (Geek Advertising Banners).

This has come about by needing an advertising system that no other hack seemed to totally fulfill. Personally - I really didnt want to burden myself with supporting another hack - but I felt it was significantly better than other hack systems out there so I thought many would be able to benefit from it.

Whats so freaking cool about it?

1- use flash, normal, text based (google adsense) or rotating banners
2- Decide which scripts run the banners
3- Define which forums run the banners
4- define which usergroups can turn off the banners
5- Make ads stop at x amount of hits
6- Make ads stop at x amount of views
7- Make ads start/stop at certain times
8- track views and/or hits
9- Wipes your bum

Why am I releasing this now? It seems to be hip and trendy to release Banner hacks. In all reality - this has been a very long work in progress that is finally rounding the finsihing stages. The current RC pacakge is considered complete except for the show stats segment (its recording stats, but you cant browse them easily yet).

LIke with any hack (especially a Beta) back up you DB and files needing change (global.php,admincp/index.php).

Known issues:

• Flash ads can not appear on same page as a rotating banner ad.
• After installing for the first time, you will most likely need to edit a phrase (any phrase) and click save to rebuild phrases
• Flash banners hide drop down menus!!! Be careful where you put them or dont use them!

Basic install instructions:

• Upload all files to relevant locations
• chmod the gab and gish folders to 777 (or change the owner of the folders to whatever account your PHP process runs under).
• Run the gab_install.php file in your admincp folder.
• Follow the steps.
• On the file changes - pay close attention to see if certain changes couldnt be made. If any changes could not be made, you need to manually make those changes.
• When complete, move changed files from gish/gab/rc1.0 to their respective locations
• Ad a new cron job to run daily (file: GAB_cron_daily.php)
• Edit each gab category to include the forums you want the ads to appear in.
• Ad $GAB_ads[x] to your templates where ever you want ads to appear (x represents the ad number depending on how many ads are set to run on that script. $GAB_ads[0] is the first ad block, $GAB_ads[1] would be the second, etc...)
• Read The Freaking README!!!!!!!

Quick Upgrade instructions

For users of GAB Beta 2, uninstall it and then install this version. In all reality, you could just revert the file changes and delete the GAB_ tables from yur DB (heck, you dont even need to do that).

To upgrade from RC1.5 to RC1.6, just replace existing files with the latest from the downloaded package and run the template portion of the installer (you can skip the rest of the install steps). You may have to revert your GUSH_main and GUSH_ad_row

Donations

I have never asked for donations for any of the macks I have done - however since I have spent well over 60 hours coding this - I thought I would stick my neck out there. If you like my mack, it brings you some money and you want to keep my fridge stocked with beer and Cheetos, then feel free to drop some cash in my paypal account: geek@thenailgeek.com
If youre having difficulty keeping beer in the fridge yourself - fill yours before you fill mine.
If you think the mack sucks, or youre just a tight git then please dont bother

nJoy

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Lionel

yeah, give them points for clicking

oooo. I really dig that idea.

I was thinking people wanted to be able to sell ads for x amount of points. Didnt think of giving them points for clickthrus.

[Lionel]

Geek, I am having a hard time. On my site and on a friend site, I get the db error for packages

On my site, the javascript is preventing the gab_admin.php to display (blank page). I found a missing phrase that I had to insert manually: the admin phrase to add banner.

On my friend site, banner simply will not display.

[geezzaa]

Hi geek, i have checked it through to the best of my ability, still no luck
heres the file , could you take a look please

[cyberdream]

Originally Posted by The Geek

for the missing phrase in the admincp:
add a phrase in the Control Panel Global section called 'GAB_add_ad' the value should be 'New Ad'

Sorry The Geek, I'm not a programmer and only now a little about adding hacks. Where & What actual code would i put into the admincp/global.php with the info you gave above.

[The Geek]

lionel - made mention of this a few posts back. Dont worry about the packages for right now - it is for a portion of the system that isnt complete in this version. The phrase issue was mentioned too.
The js does seem to blank admincp's in rare instances - this is fixed in the next release.
Have you run a test? Does it produce anything.

If you guys really having problems with $GAB_ad1 showing would like to send me admincp/ftp details - I will figure out what is happening. It seems to be working on most systems.

Cyberdream - go into admincp, expand the languages & phrases, click phrase manager, change Phrase Type to Control Panel Global, click Add new phrase, enter GAB_add_ad in the varname and 'New Ad' in the text. Then save.

I think I would delete your global.php copy and paste. I think you may get chomped for pasting vb code publicly

[The Geek]

BTW: geezar - you are missing step 101 in the file chages for global.php

Thats why it isnt working

[geezzaa]

Hi mate
Thats terrific, its now showing
But we arent out of the woods yet lol
Step 101 was showing as completed in the installer.
The banners are now showing but if you click on them you get

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/geezzaa/public_html/ukcultivator/global.php:708) in /GAB_redirect.php on line 24
Also the same line shows in the message box of the chatroom

[geezzaa]

i cant login to my site or admincp :cry:

All i get is Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /xxx/xxxx/xxxx/xxxxxx/global.php
Line: 708

when i try to login

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by geezzaa

i cant login to my site or admincp :cry:

All i get is Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /xxx/xxxx/xxxx/xxxxxx/global.php
Line: 708

when i try to login

can you pm me ftp access - there must have been an error with applying that step.

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by The Geek

lionel - made mention of this a few posts back. Dont worry about the packages for right now - it is for a portion of the system that isnt complete in this version. The phrase issue was mentioned too.
The js does seem to blank admincp's in rare instances - this is fixed in the next release.
Have you run a test? Does it produce anything.

Am able to display banner for my friend's site.

Test is blank page by me.